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- IBM chases Itanium shops with 'Breakfree' deals
- Top level domain explosion could wreak MAYHEM on NET
- Pacific rare-earth discovery: Actually just gigatonnes of dirt
- Stieg Larsson: Oxfam's number one best seller
- Google trebles its force of lobbyists ahead of FTC probe
- What's the point of data centre orchestration?
- BBC mulls talent Twitter ban to prevent storyline spoilers
- Apple site hacked 'by LulzSec' - report
- Nissan backs off from Goodwood reverse-race car stunt
- Boffins fix dead satellite using 'dirty hack' in space
- When Oracle bought Pillar for £zilch
- Samsung NS310 netbook
- WikiLeaks sues Visa, Mastercard over 'financial blockade'
- Telcos: up your prices, lose customers
- Microsoft inks Bing deal with Baidu
- Scotland Yard still have no idea why their network fell over
- Pissed-off elves bombard Icelandic town with rocks
- Apple v Samsung: Jobs strikes back
- Sony to launch PlayStation 4 in 2012, say moles
- Can Fox break the power of Army, Navy, RAF chiefs?
- Anti-censorship Radiohead tap into online Chinese market
- Facebook's 'awesome' plan to hook up with Skype?
- Spooks made 1,061 bugging errors in 2010
- Aussie retailer accuses UK shops of HDMI 'scam'
- EU cloud data can be secretly accessed by US authorities
- Fox News tweets hacked to show Obama death stories
- Terrafugia flying car gets road-safety exemptions
- Pharmacy spam disguised as Google+ invites
- Earth orbit for £1,000? You must be joking
- Plucky Czechs force Street View changes
- Atmos 2.0 now shipping
| IBM chases Itanium shops with 'Breakfree' deals Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:00 AM PDT Big Sam's big 'Thank You' to LarryWhen you live in a glass house – like IBM does, both metaphorically and literally – you don't throw stones. So when Oracle suddenly pulled the plug on future software development for the Itanium processor back in March, Big Blue didn't say squat about the situation. But the company's top brass have been taking pot-shots at the Itanium chip in recent weeks, and that was in preparation for an IBM assault on the Itanium base code-named "Project Breakfree".… |
| Top level domain explosion could wreak MAYHEM on NET Posted: 04 Jul 2011 08:36 AM PDT Suppose you owned '1'. Now you can set up 127.0.0.1 ...A plan to populate the internet with hundreds or thousands of new top-level domains has security researchers pondering some of the unintended consequences that could be exploited by online criminals. Some of the scenarios aren't pretty.… |
| Pacific rare-earth discovery: Actually just gigatonnes of dirt Posted: 04 Jul 2011 08:19 AM PDT Take a lot of acid and it might seem valuableThere has been a lot of excitement over a recent paper by Japanese researchers who have discovered billions – hundreds of billions – of tonnes of rare earths under the Pacific Ocean. Those rare earths, you will recall, are essential to so much of modern technology, from those sweet little earbuds of your iPod and the magnets in a hard drive, through to planet-saving windmills and the crystals that make an MRI machine work.… |
| Stieg Larsson: Oxfam's number one best seller Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:42 AM PDT Author most commonly given away in binliners is Dan BrownThe author Brits are most likely to hand to charity store Oxfam is Dan Brown - the man responsible for turgid Vatican romp the Da Vinci Code.… |
| Google trebles its force of lobbyists ahead of FTC probe Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:15 AM PDT Chocolate Factory insists it has 'a strong story to tell'Google now has 18 lobbying firms on its books, after it hired 12 more companies late last week to help fight a recent antitrust investigation kicked off by the US Federal Trade Commission.… |
| What's the point of data centre orchestration? Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:00 AM PDT Baton twirlers start hereFlipping the script on the 80/20 rule is the idea of data centre orchestration.… |
| BBC mulls talent Twitter ban to prevent storyline spoilers Posted: 04 Jul 2011 06:52 AM PDT Loose-lipped thesps' stealing own thunder blundersUpdated A ban on the use of Twitter and other public forums is being considered by BBC bosses, in an effort to prevent stars and writers from talking about details of the broadcaster's confidential upcoming productions online.… |
| Apple site hacked 'by LulzSec' - report Posted: 04 Jul 2011 06:31 AM PDT No suggestion of snags at iTunes, thoughHackers claim to have broken into Apple's systems before posting a list of names and password hashes online.… |
| Nissan backs off from Goodwood reverse-race car stunt Posted: 04 Jul 2011 06:28 AM PDT Arse-backwards attempt kyboshedOrganisers of the Goodwood Festival of Speed have stopped Nissan's attempt to drive one of its jalopies up the Hill Climb course backwards.… |
| Boffins fix dead satellite using 'dirty hack' in space Posted: 04 Jul 2011 05:34 AM PDT Eat that, LulzSecEngineers and ground controllers at the European Space Agency are overjoyed to announce that they have managed to bring an unexpectedly defunct, critical science satellite orbiting the Earth back to life – by hacking it.… |
| When Oracle bought Pillar for £zilch Posted: 04 Jul 2011 05:18 AM PDT Is Pillar's fate its opportunity?Comment It was a telling omission when Oracle introduced a storage guy to talk about why Pillar Data was such a great acquisition. It wasn't Mike Workman, Pillar's CEO and founder, but Phil Bullinger, Oracle's SVP for Disk Storage.… |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT There's life in the old dog yetReview Will the tablet kill off the netbook? Probably not. Granted the netbook has never quite fulfilled its promise due to a combination of prices that went up with specifications that didn't. Even so, I've yet to find a fondleslab that can truly replace my Windows 7/Ubuntu dual-booting Samsung N140.… |
| WikiLeaks sues Visa, Mastercard over 'financial blockade' Posted: 04 Jul 2011 04:40 AM PDT Unleashes pack of slavering Scandinavian lawyersWikiLeaks is suing Visa and MasterCard over their decision to suspend payment facilities for the whistleblowing website in the wake of last year's US diplomatic cables release row.… |
| Telcos: up your prices, lose customers Posted: 04 Jul 2011 04:34 AM PDT Networking switching stats show effect of tariff tweaksMobile providers rely on their customer base, yet unlike hardware manufacturers, developing a loyalty is difficult. With so much competition, increasing prices can have a significant impact and send customers sniffing elsewhere.… |
| Microsoft inks Bing deal with Baidu Posted: 04 Jul 2011 04:24 AM PDT Google slipping in China as Redmond snuggles the dragonChina-based Baidu has reportedly inked an English-language search agreement with Microsoft's Bing.… |
| Scotland Yard still have no idea why their network fell over Posted: 04 Jul 2011 04:13 AM PDT Plods' finest IT brains baffled by 'major issue'The Metropolitan Police Service is still trying to get to the bottom of the outage that prevented staff accessing some IT services nearly a month after it first emerged.… |
| Pissed-off elves bombard Icelandic town with rocks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 03:57 AM PDT Musician attempts to placate meddling huldufólkThe good burghers of the Icelandic town of Bolungarvik have intervened to prevent further action by elves who are evidently unhappy they weren't consulted about the construction of an anti-avalanche barrier.… |
| Apple v Samsung: Jobs strikes back Posted: 04 Jul 2011 03:44 AM PDT Tech giants swap legal bitchslapsLast week Samsung went to the International Trade Commission to try to ban the import of Apple's phones into the US. In response Apple has now tried to stop the sale of four specified Samsung handsets on claims that they infringe Apple patents.… |
| Sony to launch PlayStation 4 in 2012, say moles Posted: 04 Jul 2011 03:31 AM PDT Taking the initiative?Sony will begin producing the PlayStation 4 -equipped with Kinect-style movement control tech - by the end of this year, and will launch it in 2012, it has been claimed.… |
| Can Fox break the power of Army, Navy, RAF chiefs? Posted: 04 Jul 2011 03:24 AM PDT Top brasshats set to be booted out of WhitehallAnalysis Last week, the Defence Secretary announced the publication of the Levene report into the way the UK Ministry of Defence is run: and Dr Fox stated that he agrees with all the recommendations it makes. The MoD has formally announced that it "will publish a blueprint setting out all the major changes the Department is embarked on later this year".… |
| Anti-censorship Radiohead tap into online Chinese market Posted: 04 Jul 2011 03:22 AM PDT Not so Paranoid Android really, thenRadiohead have launched their own microblog in China, even though the British band oppose the country's human rights and censorship policies.… |
| Facebook's 'awesome' plan to hook up with Skype? Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:56 AM PDT MicroSoftFaceSkypeBook vidchat deal rumouredFacebook is reportedly about to launch a new video chat product powered by Microsoft-owned Skype.… |
| Spooks made 1,061 bugging errors in 2010 Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:44 AM PDT MI5 accidentally spied on 134 people they didn't mean toMI5 wrongly collected subscriber data on 134 telephone numbers as a result of a software error, according to interception of communications commissioner Sir Paul Kennedy's annual report.… |
| Aussie retailer accuses UK shops of HDMI 'scam' Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:27 AM PDT Four quid job just as good as a £100 oneWant a free HDMI cable? Buy a telly from either John Lewis or Currys and you'll get one - not from those retailers but from upstart Aussie e-tailer Kogan.… |
| EU cloud data can be secretly accessed by US authorities Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:27 AM PDT US-owned companies bound by Patriot Act, says MicrosoftPersonal information belonging to EU users of US-owned cloud-based services could be shared with US law enforcers without the user being informed, Microsoft has said.… |
| Fox News tweets hacked to show Obama death stories Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:14 AM PDT Foxy pranksters outfox Fox for lulzA Twitter account maintained by Fox News has been hacked to post fake "Obama assassinated" stories.… |
| Terrafugia flying car gets road-safety exemptions Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:00 AM PDT Forget about the car in front, it's the car aboveThe Terrafugia Transition "roadable" aircraft – a stylish combination of light aeroplane and car – has been granted useful exemptions by the US Department of Transportation.… |
| Pharmacy spam disguised as Google+ invites Posted: 04 Jul 2011 01:28 AM PDT Cock-like-a-rock July 4th specials spamvertisedScammers have wasted little time in exploiting the launch of Google+ to mount a spam campaign ultimately designed to promote penis pills and other unlicensed pharmaceutical sales from dodgy websites.… |
| Earth orbit for £1,000? You must be joking Posted: 04 Jul 2011 01:26 AM PDT Amateur boffins vie for 'very nearly' impossible N-PrizeWe're obliged to all those readers who sent in suggestions as to just what El Reg's new Special Projects Bureau should be doing with its multi-billion pound budget and mountain fab bunker complex, and the first thing that caught our eye was the N-Prize – "a challenge to launch an impossibly small satellite into orbit on a ludicrously small budget, for a pitifully small cash prize".… |
| Plucky Czechs force Street View changes Posted: 04 Jul 2011 01:01 AM PDT Slurpmobiles reined in by Prague authoritiesGoogle's Street View cars will soon be back on the streets of the Czech Republic after the data protection registrar forced changes on the search and advertising giant.… |
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